anyone moved from a private clinic to nhs or the other way round
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#uk-ireland 2026-06-14
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- assay_not_purity — i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist 22:39
- retention_time — cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision 23:33
- bpc_sceptic — ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect 23:51
supply was upstream
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border force stopped a parcel of mine and sent a letter, and that was the whole of it. no follow up and no knock at the door
*Janoshik not the other one
member reported tier 3 waits in england were all over the place, from nine months to nearly three years, as of about a year ago
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slightly off topic but the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee
i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist
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the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
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northern ireland sits under different arrangements from great britain and those have changed more than once, so do not treat anything i say about it as current
update on the earlier thing is the picture in ireland completely separate on reimbursement
there was a two year limit in the nhs guidance i read. what happened at the end of it was not clear to me then and may be clearer now
wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260Archive lookup: no_appetite_nia first appears in this channel on 2025-11-17.
just a letter
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
while im here has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this
ni has its own rules
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
how many pharmacies do people ring before giving up for the day
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ring more pharmacies
update on the earlier thing nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait, n of 1 obviously
unrelated but the private quotes i collected last spring ran from about 130 to about 250 a month depending on dose, and that will have moved since
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
slightly off topic but i paid £94 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them
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update from 19 months ago: my clinic price went up by $38 and the supply steadied in the same month
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is vat charged on a private prescription in the uk
northern ireland has two sets of rules doesnt it, how does that work in practice
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment
does the two year wait figure people quote come from anywhere real
everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it, i think
the pharmacy gap in my area lasted about six weeks when i went through it, and it was member reported as nationwide at the time
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
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ireland is separate
ask your gp
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
how much do the online clinics actually check
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
whats the cheapest legitimate private route people have found in the uk
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
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